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[ wood-bee ] / ˈwʊdˌbi / SEE SYNONYMS FOR would-be ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivewishing or pretending to be: a would-be wit. intended to be: a would-be kindness. nouna person who wishes or pretends to be something: Opera singers and would-bes should practice at least four hours a day. Origin of would-be1250–1300; Middle English (adj.) Words nearby would-beWotan, wotcher, Wotton, Wouk, would, would-be, wouldn't, wouldn't dream of, would rather, wouldst, would that Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for would-beBut the current pontiff, for reasons one might fully understand, declined to meet the would-be papal assassin. Pope-Shooter Ali Agca’s Very Weird Vatican Visit|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST The would-be pope killer loves to be in front of the cameras, and the press in Italy is happy to oblige. Pope-Shooter Ali Agca’s Very Weird Vatican Visit|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Siding with Obama on anything, no matter how sensical, is a risky move for a would-be Republican presidential candidate. The Rand-Rubio Catfight Over Cuba|Olivia Nuzzi|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST First, there are plenty of would-be gurus out there, especially in India. Is India’s Fallen ‘God-Man’ So Different From a Megachurch Pastor?|Jay Michaelson|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This Tuesday, a bunch of vampires and would-be superheroes will knock on our doors and ask us to reward them. Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST Then he simply mounted a tree, and with revolver cocked, awaited his would-be intruder. The Hunted Outlaw|Anonymous But poor blind humans, groping after would-be ideals, seek the complicated, mistaking it to be the artistic. The Feasts of Autolycus|Elizabeth Robins Pennell He is a kind of would-be dandy, and a complete Radical of the worst and lowest sort. Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835|Dorothy Duchesse de Dino But in order to prevent her being attacked on the sea by would-be rescuers she was ordered to be convoyed by the Revenue cutters. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855|E. Keble Chatterton After a brief, terrible struggle, the would-be fugitives were borne down and trodden underfoot. In the Morning of Time|Charles G. D. Roberts
British Dictionary definitions for would-be
adjective (prenominal)usually derogatory wanting or professing to bea would-be politician intended to bewould-be generosity nounderogatory a person who wants or professes to be something that he is not Indian the person to whom one is is engaged to be married; fiancé or fiancée Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to would-beprospective, budding, potential, enterprising, ambitious, eager, hopeful, keen, promising, wishful, striving, wannabe |